"The Walking Dead is alive again.
Believe me, I've pronouncing it dead for years. Although I'm a long-time fan of the original comic books—I've been reading them since 2003—my feelings about the television series have always been ambivalent at best. I recapped the show here at WIRED for a while, and if you peruse the archives, you can actually trace the slow, rolling boil of my contempt, which culminated in headlines like "Zombies Don't Kill People, Being Stupid Does" and "Rick Grimes Is the Worst Leader Ever." I started to dislike the show so much that I actually stopped recapping in the middle of the 2013 season, and when Fear the Walking Dead premiered in August, I panned that too.
But over the last year, The Walking Dead has transformed itself from grinding, repetitive misery porn into a vital survival drama by setting its characters free from the two things that have hindered them the most: stupid people and contemporary morality.
A mere two seasons ago, Rick was the one trying to protect people from the dangers of the real world rather than forcing them to face it. But times change. Last night, when Rick found himself in the woods with a massive horde of zombies creeping his way and two survivors who could barely walk, his advice was far more pragmatic: "They aren't all going to make it," he told Glenn and Michonne quietly. "You try to save them, but if they can't keep up, you keep going." Forget leaving no man behind—pragmatism is the modus operandi for Rick Grimes 2.0, and it is sweet, sweet music to my ears…"
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